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What’s
new at TSP – last updated 9 May 2014

(5/09/14)
We updated all the Windows versions and installers for a few minor bugfixes and
some minor new features:

WRITE(FILE='file.csv') now writes .CSV files, with variable names in the
first row. This avoids the old Excel row limit (65,536) when
writing .XLS files and may also be useful for importing into Stata or
a database (or to recent versions of Excel which avoid the row limitation
by storing .xlsx or .xlsb).

READ(FILE='file.sas7bdat') now handles SAS .sas7bdat files with COMPRESS=CHAR and/or files
created on both Windows and 64-bit unix systems (Intel and non-Intel).

SORT(ALL) KEY1 KEY2 ... ; multple sort keys

LAD(MAXIT=limit) controls the number of iterations for BRCENS estimation
(default 500).

The standard Windows 64-bit MP TSP.EXE no longer uses separate DLL files.
Everything is in the .EXE, which makes it easier to install and use.

(2013)

We revised the TSP 5.1 Reference Manual slightly, to include the LP
command, and restored headers to the top of each page with the command name,
so it is easier to find the command you are looking for.

We survived a difficult year, where we were unable to ship
complete orders for most of the year, due to unavailability of the
OxMetrics manuals.
We eventually solved this by printing them ourselves.

Our founder and business partner, Bronwyn Hall, retired from the business.
Observably, this meant the website was not being updated, although
there was actually no news in terms of released new features to report.

(10/25/12)

We updated the Demo version to distribute it in .ZIP format,
because the old .EXE format did not uncompress the files on Windows x64 systems
(it was a 16 bit .EXE).

We also increased the space for long names in the OxMetrics version - there
is now space for 200,000 16-byte names (vs. 5,000 in the past).

The latest update also reads string variables from Stata .dta and SAS .sas7bdat
files.
It automatically recodes them to numeric variables.
More string capabilities are under development.

P.S. TSP and OxMetrics should run fine on Windows 8, because Windows 8
supports programs which run on Windows 7.
TSP won't run on Windows RT, which is for non-Intel tablets.

(3/7/12)
Windows TSP updated to include native Intel 32-bit and 64-bit MP command
prompt versions.
MP supports multiple processors, in a few commands:
ML, PROBIT, MVPROB, LAD(METHOD=FN).
It uses
gfortran and
OpenMP.
The 64-bit version supports up to 8gb of memory,
and both MP versions read files larger than 2gb.
These features will be in the OxMetrics interface version at some point.
Other minor new features:

weighted ML estimation (ML, PROBIT, LOGIT, TOBIT, INTERVAL)

FORCST after LOGIT makes fitted probabilities

MVPROB does bivariate probit (will extend to 3+ equations later)

RECODE command recodes with a table or bounds

CONVERT works with panel data to compute one value (such as SUM or
AVERAGE) for an individual and then replicate it across all observations
for that individual.

(3/3/12)
Mac TSP updated to include native Intel 32-bit MP Terminal version.
This runs on MacOS 10.6 and higher, which requires native Intel code.
Still working on making a full app interface Intel version, to run
with OxMetrics on the Mac.

(12/27/11) TSP International
will NOT be at the ASSA meetings in Chicago.
This was decided months ago; it costs a fair amount of time and money,
that we felt would be better spent doing development.
Clint did attend all the meetings from 2000-2011 except for the infamous
time in 2005 when he booked a flight from using the SJC airport code to
Philadelphia, but found out at the San Jose California airport that SJC
is San Jose, Costa Rica! :-)
We have a few features under development to finish,
and are also (finally) working on native Intel Mac versions.
If you have new TSP features to request, questions, or want to say hi,
please send email! (
support@tspintl.com is the most direct)

(8/27/11) Extra copies of our
TSP Reference Manual are now
available from a print-on-demand publisher here.The User’s Guide will be available in the near future.

(4/6/11) Reminder -- please
use the following email addresses to contact us:

info at
tspintl.com– general inquiries, including pricing
queries, and placing orders

support
at tspintl.com – bug reports
and technical queries, with as much information as you can provide (including a
copy of the tsp run that is causing problems).

And do keep in mind that although
messages on our phone are monitored by us, we are often not available to answer
the phone immediately, so it is better to use email to contact us.

(3/31/11) We are updating our
newsletter mailing list. If you want to subscribe and have not yet heard from
us, you can opt-in to the mailing
list here.

(3/29/11) Many of our users
may be unaware that there are a large number of examples
of using TSP on this website (over 400, plus additional examples for the Pindyck and Rubinfeld handbook and numerous accuracy
benchmarks). These examples have been
recently reorganized and the internal documentation improved, in hopes that more
users will be able to make use of them. They cover a range of problems from
simple examples of using TSP to complex models for maximum likelihood
estimation when the model in question has not been “hard-coded” in TSP. They
have also been grouped under the following headings: Benchmarks, linear,
matrices, miscellaneous, ML+QDV, nonlinear, panel data, Pindyck &
Rubinfeld, robust, statistical testing, time series, univariate, and a special
advanced section where Clint puts his latest creations. See this page for a complete listing by
type of example.

(2/28/11) Announcing the release of TSP 5.1 for
computers running Linux. The
single user academic price is $600, see the order
page for more information about how to order this version.

(2/25/11) DOWNTIME: Our fax
machine was offline for two weeks in January and early February. If you
submitted an order during that period and have not heard from us, please get in
touch at info@tspintl.com and/or resubmit
the order.

(12/18/10) TSP Internationalwill be at the ASSA meetings in Denver,
January 6-9 2011. We are sharing a booth with Timberlake Consulting – both
Clint and Bronwyn will be there at various times. Come visit us and learn
what’s new in TSP 5.1 and what is planned for the future.

(12/1/10) We are developing a
new mailing list for the newsletter. Send an email to news at tspintl.com if you would like to be
added to it.

(9/1/10) In an effort to
improve our email responsiveness (we apologize for the many delays some of you
have experienced), we have changed some email addresses. Please use the
following addresses to contact us:

info at
tspintl.com– general inquiries, including pricing
queries, and placing orders

support
at tspintl.com – bug reports
and technical queries. We try to answer all of these, but keep in mind that we
are not an econometric programming service, so we do not always have time to
design estimation strategies and write your programs for you. We are happy to
direct you to key references in the literature, however.

(7/28/10) Announcing the release of TSP 5.1 for
the MAC. Runs on most
operating systems, including Snow Leopard (with a compatibility package
loaded). The single user academic price is $500, see the order page for more information about how to order
this version.